Women at high risk of breast cancer could soon have an alternative to mastectomies. Melbourne researchers are trialling a drug that could switch off progenitor cells, the cells that lead to breast cancer in women who carry BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations. ...

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According to the Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick, there is now improved treatment for patients needing chemotherapy at the Mackay Base Hospital following its $408 million redevelopment. But a 69-year-old cancer patient says receiving chemotherapy treatment in Mackay was not as easy ...

For many girls in Nepal, their monthly period means a time of being ostracised from their village and absent from school. But a group from regional New South Wales is creating a colourful way of advocating for these young women and their right to education. ...

The mantra of personalised medicine is that if doctors want to provide better care, they need to cater to individual difference. So why doesn't the medical establishment discriminate between a very basic difference - those born biologically male, and those born biologically female? Not ...